UFC President Dana White said the doctors know when a fighter truly can or can’t fight, and the promotion acts off the information.

“They’ve seen everything,” he told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “The doctor will tell us: This guy’s OK to fight. Yes, he has this whatever-it-is, but it can’t stop him from fighting.”

The sheer volume of injuries to UFC fighters in the past two years has raised questions about whether factors other than training accidents are to blame.

Some skeptics have blamed the promotion’s accident-insurance program, which is now more than a year old. Others have pointed to the threat of being released from a contract in the event a performance is worsened by injury. Just plain ducking is often suggested by fighters and fans.

White, though, believes it’s just sheer bad luck. On Thursday he expressed relief that none of the main draws of UFC on FOX 5, which takes place Saturday at Seattle’s KeyArena, had scratched due to an injury.

He wasn’t so lucky about a card scheduled for the end of this month. UFC 155, which takes place on Dec. 29 on the promotion’s home turf of Las Vegas, lost two-time lightweight title challenger Gray Maynard, middleweight contender Chris Weidman, and, most recently, ex-light heavyweight champ Forrest Griffin.

White joked he would make sure nobody took a spill off the dais at Thurday’s pre-UFC on FOX 5 press conference.

“I’m hoping on this Dec. 29 fight, that’s the end of this s–t,” he said. “We’ve got some voodoo spell on us or something.”

When a UFC fighter is injured, White said, his or her doctor makes an initial diagnosis. The fighter is then flown to Las Vegas to meet with UFC-approved doctors, whom White said are combat sports veterans that have seen every type of injury.

White said the promotion has caught fighters claiming injuries not severe enough to preclude them from fighting. He declined to mention any specific situations.

Manager John Fosco, meanwhile, said only top-tier fighters are flown out to Las Vegas. The majority of rank-and-file fighters bolster their claims with doctor’s paperwork.

“You go, you talk to your doctor, you know what it is,” White said. “Then you fly to Las Vegas and see our doctors, and our doctors check you out. It’s not fake injuries. You think somebody’s going to blow an ACL so they don’t have to fight somebody?”

There is, of course, a big gap between a torn ACL and the types of injuries fighters often speak of as a part of fighting professionally. Most compete despite some sort of malady and believe it’s impossible to be completely healthy and prepare properly. Some think withdrawing due to injury is contrary to the spirit of fighting.

But fighters continue to be injured and withdraw. White, for one, believes the only remedy to the epidemic is a good dose of time, however unrealistic that might be.

“I hope it’s over on Jan. 1,” he said. “That was just something we’ll be talking about years from now, how 2012 was the craziest year ever.”

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